Pam's 2023 Reading Challenge

[Pam]

Two more:

Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie M Holmberg - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5666963802

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5516706265

[Pam]

Review catch up -

Waking the Witch by Rachel Burge - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5670543085

The Forgetting by Hannah Beckerman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5685548416

Three Ships and Three Kings by Georgia Sallaska - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5685002428

[Pam]

Three by Susan Hill, the second a re-read:

The Woman in Black - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5689915706

The Various Haunts of Men - re-read - original review and update note - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2683554462

The Risk of Darkness - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5690093775

[Pam]

The last of the Susan Hill's:
A Change of Circumstance - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5692244242

[Pam]

Read two of C. S. Harris' St Cyr series - Why Mermaids Sing - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4556525745
and
Where Serpents Sleep - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5325507736

plus Newsletter Ninja: How to Become an Author Mailing List Expert by Tammi Labrecque - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5712283072

[Pam]

Read The Summer House by Keri Beevis - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5724952377

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Seems like you are doing well Pam

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Seems like you are doing well Pam"

Thanks Desley. Yes, I increased my goal from 100 to 120 as I couldn't believe how far in advance I was. Will do that again when I get nearer the new target.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

That's fab Pam

[Pam]

Read The Engine House: A Black Beacons Murder Mystery by Rhys Dylan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5738892420


Was trying not to do much of a spoiler on this hence review a bit vague in places. These days not a fan of investing in a character if I think that somewhere down the line they are going to be killed off!

[Pam]

Read Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill, published in 1951 with a different take on a historical event than the usual attitude today but enjoyed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5746078552

[Pam]

Catchup as I hadn't got round to posting the links to these reviews:

The Exploits of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5752924991

Precious Bane by Mary Webb - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5108297748

The Science of Stephen King: The Truth Behind Pennywise, Jack Torrance, Carrie, Cujo, and More Iconic Characters from the Master of Horror by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5770905671

By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5770928944

Portent by James Herbert - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5770989911

[Pam]

Read a couple more:

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5783090799

The King's Secret Matter by Jean Plaidy - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5783150631

[Pam]

Seem to have forgotten to post a review written some time ago - The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 by Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5726752964

and a recent one by Stephen King - Pet Sematary - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5788347913

[Pam]

And another Stephen King - Dreamcatcher- reviewed- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5796018026

[Pam]

Yet another, this time co-written with Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5799903400

[Pam]

Seem to be massively behind with posting my reviews although I've been doing them:

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5800594798

Wannabe a Writer? by Jane Wenham-Jones - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5803309411

The Holy Grail: Its Origins, Secrets, and Meaning Revealed by Malcolm Godwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5812958123

Revival by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5819551794

The Dead Town by Dean Koontz - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5819614744

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1299739695

[Pam]

Another review catchup:

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5400182664

A re-read of House of Names by Colm Toibin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5591702051

and two books by the late neurologist Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5840261490
and
Hallucinations - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5850085066

[Pam]

Cautiously increased my goal to 140 as I was within 4 of achieving it. Can't believe I'm still so far ahead. Have decided to catch up on some magazines again as those have accrued in the last few months.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Wow, that's really good Pam, well done.

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow, that's really good Pam, well done."

Thanks Desley.

[Pam]

Review catchup:

Luther's Ambassadors: A Tudor Mystery by Jay Margrave, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5850442778

The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5881481055

Slow Horses by Nick Herron, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286728639

[Pam]

Big catchup as I don't seem to have posted the links to reviews done weeks ago:

A couple of books by Elaine Morgan:

The Descent of Woman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5888727594

Aquatic Ape: Elaine Morgan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5895210768

Then Frederick Pohl's memoir - The Way the Future Was: A Memoir - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5910744717

First edition of Wizardry And Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5910977584

and Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5910941290

[Pam]

Big catchup:

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle and others - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5943305547

The Guest List by Lucy Foley - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5934786789

Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins by Elaine Morgan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5895080379

Diaries: 1983-1992 by Alan Clark - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5976693415

Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4890362424

[Pam]

Read a couple (increased my challenge target):

The Stress Factor by Christine Noble - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5995527307
and
Paul Roche's translation of the three The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6004513031

[Pam]

Catchup:

Read The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6004567972

two books by E V Harte - The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6014632515 and The Case of the Fool - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6035872940

and The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5979790590

[Pam]

Just realised I've not posted my last reviews of 2023:

How Not to Write a Novel: Confessions of a Mid-List Author by David Armstrong - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Black and Blue by Ian Rankin - reviewed -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It Waits in the Woods by Josh Malerman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and my last book completed in 2023 (started another but didn't finish till New Year's day)

The Pram by Joe Hill - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...